Chapter 3

Arc 1

Forest

Cedric walked towards the edge of the forest sporting the suit that his father had given him. It was a suit that had been in his family for generations and generations. And it was now his time to don the suit. Don the suit that had represented truth, justice and hope for his people and even for the people of Earth.

Cedric wore a black suit with a chainmail like texture to it with ancient Ryonian inscription on the shield, shoulders and belt. The chest and shoulder portion of the suit donned a blue color scheme which also reached up to the middle of his neck. The lining on the bottom side of the blue chest piece was silver. He had a blue belt around his waist with the Korra family insignia in the center of the belt in silver. The suit had blue battle gauntlets with silver lining on the edge of the gauntlet and also left his finger exposed. The suit had blue boots. And to finish the look off in the absolute center of the lining of the chest portion the Korra family insignia, the 8 point star. The star had the outline of silver with the rest of the symbol being blue but currently it's blue was brighter due to the energy coursing through his veins.

He placed a hand over the star feeling as the energy coursed through his veins. He felt stronger. He felt faster. He felt more powerful than he had ever felt in his entire life. His body felt like a living battery charged with power.

"You feel it, don't you?" His father asked him, making him turn around to face him and look at him. "You feel the power running through your veins. The energy at its purest form."

"This must be how you felt every day."

"It is. You feel like the most powerful man in the world. In the universe. But no matter how strong you get, there will always be someone more powerful than you. Don't make the same mistakes I did. Be better."

"I will and don't think I'm done with you old man. When this is all over, you're coming back with me."

"We talked about this."

"I know and we're gonna talk about it again once I kick this thing's ass."

"Have fun."

"I'm going into a battle and the one thing you can say is "have fun"

"Well good luck, just go. My god, you act just like your mother."

"I'm gonna take that as a compliment."

"Remember, you will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive for. They will race behind you. They will stumble. They will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders. You will become a symbol of hope." Koya said as Cedric nodded.

Cedric then turned and looked down at his hands before looking up at the night sky making a frown before he took off jumping in the air looking for flight but for him, it didn't happen instead he landed a few thousand feet away. Once he landed, he jumped once again looking for flight but failed and jumped a few thousand feet again. Once he landed, he jumped up once again and this time caught a glimpse of flying as he flew up into the night time sky chuckling before he dropped down out of the sky crashing into a few trees on the way down knocking them down to the ground.

"Damn." He cursed as he rose up from the rubble. He took a few steps away and looked up at the sky and breathed as he focused on it. He knelt down and placed his hand on the soil feeling it beneath his fingers as the energy coursed through his veins. He closed his eyes as the ground beneath him started to levitate with the gravity before he took off flying off into the air as he created a sonic boom. He chuckled as he blasted off in the air at supersonic speeds.

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Sunstone City

The big, tall silver battle droid looked on as he was destroying everything in his path whether it be SCPD squad cars or SCPD SWAT cars. He was wreaking havoc and there was no one that could possibly stop him or it. It destroyed whatever it could get is' hands-on. Millions and Millions of dollars in damages. Despite all the damage only a few people were killed in his wake of terror. And someone was looking to stop it all.

"Shouldn't we be getting out of the city?" Madison Maverick said as she burst into her brother's office in his penthouse to see her brother sitting at his desk with his foot upon the desk with a glass of scotch in his hands.

"No."

"What? That thing is out there destroying the city and at every given moment, it could kill us. Aren't you at the least worried?"

"Nope."

"Why the hell not?"

"I have faith."

"I've known you my entire life and you have never been a religious man. Tell me the truth Miles." Miles sat up and placed his glass down on the desk and rose up from his seat and walked towards Madison who clenched her fist as Miles walked towards her.

"I am telling you the truth. I have faith. Not in god. How could I have faith in a man who allows people to die and suffer? People including our parents? No, I have faith in myself, the only thing that I can rely on. There is no god. And if there was, he'd wish he were me." Miles arrogantly said as he walked towards the window and looked out over at the city.

"You're wrong Miles. There is a god and he doesn't wish that he were you because he's better than you." Madison said, making Miles frown as he turned his head to look at her. Miles chuckled as he shook his head while Madison walked out of the office.

"Silly fool. You should know to never question Miles Maverick. I have the power to wipe this threat and I will. And when I do the world will see the hero that I am." Miles said looking over the destruction.

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The droid turned around looking for any sign of life nearby and spotting some movement in the car that he had knocked over earlier. The car that held the lives of Joey Adams and Kala Rose. It walked towards the car clenching it's fist looking to kill more. It stopped in his tracks as it heard what sounded like a snap of Thunder coming from the clouds. Out of nowhere a blur came bolting through the sky and flew right into the droid knocking it off its feet into an abandoned building as the ruble dropped onto the droid.

Cedric floated above the ground before he dropped to his feet and opened his eyes showing his glowing blue eyes. Cedric turned his head and looked at the car housing his best friend and her boyfriend. He jumped over onto the hood of the car and ripped off the roof of the car seeing them. He looked them over, looking for any internal injuries seeing that Kala had a broken arm with a few broken ribs and he had a few broken ribs. He grabbed the car and carried it as he flew them over to one of the safety zones that was set up throughout the city.

"Hey there gonna need help. He has a few broken ribs and she has a broken arm and some ribs." He told the medic crew there who had looked at him with a confused frown as they ran towards the people. He then flew off leaving them confused as they stared while he flew away. He looked down, searching for the droid he was fighting earlier but taken by surprise as the droid had jumped up and tackled him out of the sky knocking them both into Sunstone City National Park creating a crater upon impact.

The droid was the first to stand to its feet as it stood over Cedric. It looked down at Cedric only to be hit with an uppercut that knocked the droid off its feet and up in the air. Cedric floated up in the air as he looked up and saw news helicopters flying over them detailing their battle. Cedric then lowered his head and focused on his opponent who had risen up to its feet and locked eyes with Cedric.

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Miles Maverick stood in front of a TV in his office clenching his fist with the glass of scotch in his hands. He had an intense frown as he looked on watching as this new hero had entered and did what he planned to do which was save the city.

"Damn him!" He then threw the glass up against the wall making it shatter into pieces.

"Stealing my spotlight!"

"Rex, Where the hell are you?" Maverick said as he pulled out a walkie talker and received no answer. The whole thing was set up so that Miles Maverick's Maverick Militia could be the guys to stop it. The Maverick Militia were supposed to be a militia for hire team and this was gonna be the perfect situation to set them up. Little did Maverick now, his militia was one of the things that the droid ended up destroying.

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Cedric smirked as the droid started running towards him while he flew towards it. Cedric had grabbed the droid and was holding it as they started to fly up a few feet in the air. The droid had clubbed Cedric in the back a few times causing them both to drop. The droid ran towards Cedric who was down on a knee and kneed him in the face before it threw him along breaking a few trees in the park. Cedric got up to a knee and spit out some blood.

"I'll give you that one. You did good. But you just killed your future." Cedric said as he made two globes of energy in each of his palms before he put them together and made an energy beam aiming it at the droid. The energy was melting away at the armor of the droid making it weaker to attack. The droid ran towards Cedric and jumped up trying to attack him but Cedric saw it coming and put his hands down and beamed the droid in the eyes with his eye beams. The beams went right through the droids head ending the battle between the two. Cedric stepped to the suit and allowed the lifeless body of the android to fall and hit the ground. Cedric looked down at the droid frowning as he used his x-ray vision to look at the androids insides. He found a CPU Card inside the robot with a logo. A logo he recognized. A logo that anybody could recognize really. It was a black M on a white background. The logo of Maverick Industries, meaning that the CEO had something to do with it. Cedric bent down and reached down into the Android's lifeless body and pulled out the CPU Card.

The hero that just saved the people of his city rose up to his feet and looked around at his surroundings seeing all the destruction that was caused. He could see all the media coverage starting to surround him. He didn't want to stick around too much for any questions or anything so he bolted up in the sky as a black and blue blur appeared while he flew away leaving the question on everyone's minds.

Who is this mysterious hero?